PEACE, MAYBE: President Donald Trump announced yesterday that he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15th in Alaska to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.   Trump said a deal could include “some swapping of territories” … Ukraine ceding …

August 8, 2025 Vol. 14, No. 2366 ALL OF IT: The Israeli security cabinet today over the objections of the military approved a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take control of Gaza City, essentially bringing all of the Gaza …

TRADE WAR: President Trump’s steep tariffs on goods imported from about 90 countries went into effect at midnight. Trump says he’s trying to rebalance international trade and bring manufacturing back to the US.    He’s also crowing about how much money he’s …

TEXAS HOLD ‘EM: The right wing and hard-nosed attorney general of Texas said yesterday that he willask for a court order to vacate the seats of any Democratic lawmakers who are not back to work by Friday. The Democrats left the …

TEXAS HOLD ‘EM: Texas Republicans voted to issue civil arrest warrants for dozens of Democratic lawmakers who left the state to deny the legislature a quorum for voting on congressional redistricting map that would create five new Republican districts.   It’s not …

LONE STAR: Democrats in the Texas legislature left the state yesterday to deny Republicans the quorum they need to approve a redrawn Congressional map designed to assure them five more seats in the US House of Representatives.   The 150-member Texas House …

TRADE WAR: President Trump last night blew up the order of world trade once more with an executive command setting new import tariffs while citing a trade deficit with many countries that constitutes, he claimed, “an unusual and extraordinary threat to …

ECON 101: The Federal Reserve for the fifth time in a row yesterday left interest rates as they are in the face of President Trump’s demand that they be lowered by a dramatic 1 percent. Two members of the Federal Reserve …

DENIAL: Making climate change denial a part of policy,  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced yesterday that the EPA is repealing the 2009 determination that planet-warming gases including carbon dioxide are a threat to public health.   The formal announcement was made yesterday …

HUNGER GAMES: President Trump yesterday openly disagreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on whether there is starvation in Gaza.  Trump said that he’d seen pictures of children on television and that they “look very hungry” and “we have to get the …